When Mary-Lou met JonathanD: the corrupt nexus between Irish politics, terrorism & organised .crime

He is a convicted torturer, she is predicted to be the next Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), together they enjoyed a brief honeymoon as a brace of "working class heros" in Central Dublin,poised to lead an awestruck electorate towards "the glorious day", sweeping the Old Order aside, as ordained by history. But reality intervened for both when he resigned from Sinn Féin, complaining he was being bullied. In Mary Lou's case reality was when Dowdall was given a very hefty prison sentence for torturing a conman who ought to purchase a motorcycle from him. Cue Mary Lou resorted to page one of of the Donald Trump playbook - deny any knowledge of Dowdall's sinister background. Malachy Steenson is a lawyer and criminologist who grew up in Dublin's North Inner City (NIC). He is personally and professionally qualified to comment on the sewer of corruption that passes for normal politics in the areas, having contested several elections against the two protagonists, Dowdalll and McDonald. He was the first person to call out Jonathan Dowdall, while he was still a serving member of Dublin City Council and has been ceaseless in what he knows of the corruption that exists in his native city. He details and names names of a space where politicians, gangsters and corrupt police interact and are interchangeable. He condemns an uncritical local and national media which glamorizes gangsterism, terrorism while turning a blind eye to the real causes causes of the malaise. He asks the question the Irish media have failed to - "How did Jonathan Dowdall come to be selected as a Sinn Féin candidate". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing... https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin... https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/20... https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish...